The gist of it: with each passing decade there’s a growing shortage of construction laborers, resulting in large wait times for housing to be built. Some analysts wonder why the key demographic isn’t showing up.

I’ve seen a few articles in the past few years about young men supposedly checking out of society and work, I wonder if there is a connection between that and this article here because young men tend to be the prime demographic for working this job.

Companies need to pay their workers better.

  • jadero@lemmy.ca
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    10 months ago

    I can’t speak to the general problem, but I can tell you why I left construction and manual labour more generally.

    A lot of the work is still as damaging to the body as it was in 1930.

    Toxic coworkers enabled and even encouraged by psychopathic supervisors.

    Safety is not only not built in to procedures, but actively mocked and even deliberately worked around, even when doing so slows things down.

    And all that for less than double minimum wage for experienced workers when it used to be easily triple minimum wage to start.